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Subject: Re: How to avoid blocked pawn positions in Deep Fritz vs Kramnik ?!

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 12:44:19 05/20/01

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On May 20, 2001 at 14:27:57, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On May 20, 2001 at 14:14:17, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>We have witnessed how simple it is for any IM or higher to paralize the tactical
>>capability of any good chess program, by avoiding open positions which increase
>>the tactical chances of most programs. Kramnik even paralized the tactical
>>possibilities of Kasparov (one of the most dangerous human tactical player
>>alive) by playing the Berlin system of the Ruy Lopez. Therefore, it is
>>recommended to implement a subroutine which will enable Deep Fritz to detect
>>when the position has become blocked by pawns, which will trigger it to
>>sacrifice the key pawn, in order to open up the position for the program to
>>excel tactically. A subroutine with this unique evaluation terms will require
>>pawn hashing technique, since the extra evaluation terms will slow the search
>>down more than the benefit of the extra knowledge.
>>
>>PS: Does anyboby know exactly the speed of each processor in which Deep Fritz be
>>operated on, Will it be intel or AMD ?
>
>I guess that until this blocked pawns syndrome in Deep Fritz is corrected, it
>won't matter much the speed of the hardware at all, plus the fact that Kramnik
>will have the program for at least Three Long Months.
>>
>>Pichard.

That was not really the question, i think that Fritz7 will run on a 8x1Ghz
system, with 4-8GB ram.

Regards
Jonas



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